Writing is that activity that makes me feel alive in a context that would like for me to be dead. So writing for me is always a form of dissent, voting with my feet, so to speak. I would prefer to sit and write to doing what I had every opportunity to do: make money.
“There existed at least for a time, and that time lasted for some years in New York City, a kind of constant contact between us. One might almost — almost — venture to call it a sense of being united in some way, probably by the conviction that there should be good films. Preferably, films so good they hadn’t been made yet. That the intellectual space open to film had not entirely been preempted.”
Hollis Frampton